Improved mode op removing stumps



cited' Staten .wat 11i-mine,

-HENDERSON VVILLARD, OE GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSEIJF AND JOSEPH WALKER, OF SAME PLACE;

Letters Patent N o. 94,264, dated August 31, 1869.

IMPROVED MDE OIE' REMOVING STUMP'S.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that' I, HENDERSON WILLARD, of the city of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent, in the State of Michigan, have invented a new Method of Preparing Stumps for Combustion; and I do declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of inyinvention consists in rst boring a hole in a stump from top to root, vertically ordiagonaliy, to receive a priming of penetrating and combustible matter', and afterward intersecting this hole by making a hole or opening in the side of the stump, near the ground, to cause a draught Vthrough the stump, when ignitedA at this opening or hole, near the ground. l In the annexed drawings, making a part of this specication- I Figure 1 represents a stump, which has been bored diagonally, to receive a priming of penetrating and combustible mattei', as seen at A, and

Figure 2 represents the 'same stump, after the priming has been absorbed and the hole or opening vB has been made near the ground, in the side of the stump intersecting the hoie A, forthe purpose of causing a draught through the hole A', when fire -is applied to the stump at the hole or opening B.

As 'many holes A and B may be made as thought desirable, and anysuiciently penetrating and combustible substance may be used for priming.

Fir shouldr be applied at B, that the draught may carry the flame through the hole A, until the stump is consumed.

Having thus described my'invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Thev holes A and B made in a stump, substantially 'y Witnesses: i Y

IsAAc. H. NEWTON, EDWARD' TAGGERT. 

